Highlands LAN Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the Highlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Area Network (LAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dundee Durham Ealing East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Kent Kilmarnock Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	9
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£326
% change on same period last year	+2.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.61	£21.85
% change on same period last year	+17.17 %
Communications & Networking Highlands
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£16.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
LAN Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Highlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LAN across the Highlands region.

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LAN across the Highlands region.

LAN
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands region citing LAN also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LAN.

1 3 (100.00 %) WAN 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP 2 2 (66.67 %) VoIP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands region citing LAN also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) VoIP	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Coordinator 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Coordinator 1 1 (33.33 %) Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Team Leader 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Team Leader
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Management
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cisco